Sullivan, who so badly wants to be back in the circle of the beloved (or maybe just a date with the gay-who-must-not-be-named at the RNC) manages to get the party line out last week:

Without Bush and Blair, we would still be facing Saddam's brutal kleptocracy, enabled by a corrupt U.N., and the threat of an end to sanctions and a possible terrorist-WMD alliance.

I don't want to be excitable, but aren't you feeling euphoric? It's almost a classic tale of good defeating evil. We always needed the Iraqi people to seize freedom for themselves. Given the chance, they have. This is their victory, made possible by those amazing Western troops.

On the other hand, if the turnout is as light in the Sunni Arab areas as it now appears, the parliament/ constitutional assembly is going to be extremely lopsided. It would be sort of like having an election in California where the white Protestants all stayed home and the legislature was mostly Latinos, African-Americans and Asians.